' Wrote:I'd be happy for some advances into the Taus, etc.
' Wrote:Basically, we don't go to tau-23 any more because it's a long way through Edinburgh or a highly risky dash past a stationary battleship. Also, Bretonia in RP is supposed to be very on the defensive, so any raids are a little ooRP. Omega-5, similarly, can only be accessed by jump holes (which the BAF probably shouldn't know about)
I can understand the RP aspect and the whole thing with the trip, but, if I may make a suggestion:
Recently there's been those whole outrages etcetera going on on ganks here and ganks there and bad stuff between Kusari and Bretonia (Note: I do not want to start another discussion on ganks here, just stating "why".) so I'm thinking given that like all the time Bretonia is being defensive, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to be on the offensive here and there (see RM / LN war where, to my knowledge, both sides stage raids here and there) in order to add more "fun stuff" to do for the faction, and in order to partially take the pressure off Dublin as it currently is.
In Tau 31 you'll find that fancy planet Harris with its stationary BS there, and yet I like never ever see fights occurring in T-31. While of course basing whole fleets with caps and so on from there might not be a great idea (As I remembered the Harris forces are basically a now-detached part of the Armed Forces holding out and trying to survive.), some fighter raids surely would be possible from there, no?
Similarly while I understand the reasoning for not going to some places where only JHs lead to, I don't think that Omega-5 is that much a secret. (Back when I was a Corsair in the OPG, Cambridge + the nearby Omegas were our pirating "hotspot" and we did encounter back then-QCRF forces in O-5 a fair amount of times.)
The latter could serve to take the pressure off Dublin and I suppose would even make sense, seeing as Cadiz is way closer to Bretonian space than any other Corsair base is from Dublin (Bar Gran Canaria, if you want to call it a Corsair base due to the Corsair populace on the planet.), and given the terrain - lots of rocks - I can see it being even justifyable in-RP to have strikecraft and even Gunboats operating into O-5 offensively while keeping the precious bigger ships the house needs to survive at home and on the defensive. If complications would arise when it comes to that, Bretonia does have its own Intelligence Service with the matching ID, so having an inRP subdivision of said Intelligence Service focus more on the military and combat aspects (in order to raid) while operating with and within the BAF, that wouldn't be a bad idea either?